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Proverbs 14:9
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Fools mock at making reparation,but there is goodwill among the upright.
Fools mock at making atonement for sins, But among the upright there is good will.
Fools make a mock at sin: but among the righteous there is favour.
Fools mock at the guilt offering, but the upright enjoy acceptance.
Fools mock at sin, But among the upright there is goodwill.
Fools don't care if they sin, but honest people work at being right.
Fools mock at reparation, but among the upright there is favor.
Fools mock sin [but sin mocks the fools], But among the upright there is good will and the favor and blessing of God.
Fools mock at making atonement for sins, But among the upright there is good will.
The foole maketh a mocke of sinne: but among the righteous there is fauour.
Ignorant fools scoff at guilt,But among the upright there is favor.
Fools mock the making of amends, but goodwill is found among the upright.
Fools don't care if they are wrong, but God is pleased when people do right.
Guilt offerings make a mockery of fools; but among the upright there is good will.
Fools make a mock at trespass; but for the upright there is favour.
Fines are needed to make fools obey the law, but good people are happy to obey it.
Truly the households of the wicked need purifying; but the households of the righteous are acceptable.
Foolish people don't care if they sin, but good people want to be forgiven.
Fools mock the guilt offering, but among the upright, it is favorable.
Fools laugh at guilt offering, but among the righteous is favor.
Fooles make but a sporte of synne, but there is fauourable loue amoge the rightuous.
A trespass-offering mocketh fools; But among the upright there is good will.
In the tents of those hating authority there is error, but in the house of the upright man there is grace.
Amends pleadeth for fools; but among the upright there is good will.
Fooles make a mocke at sinne: but among the righteous there is fauour.
Fooles make but a sport of sinne: but there is a fauourable loue among the ryghteous.
The houses of transgressors will need purification; but the houses of the just are acceptable.
The foolish make a mock at guilt: but among the upright there is good will.
A fool scorneth synne; grace schal dwelle among iust men.
A trespass-offering mocks fools; But among the upright there is good will.
Fools make a mock at sin: but among the righteous [there is] favor.
Fools mock at sin, But among the upright there is favor.
Fools laugh at sin, but the favor of God is among the faithful.
Fools mock at the guilt offering, but the upright enjoy God's favor.
the foolish, scoff at guilt, but, between the upright, is good pleasure.
A fool will laugh at sin, but among the just grace shall abide.
God scorns the wicked, but the upright enjoy his favor.
Fools mock at a guilt-offering, And among the upright -- a pleasing thing.
The stupid ridicule right and wrong, but a moral life is a favored life.
Fools mock at sin, But among the upright there is good will.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Fools: Proverbs 1:22, Proverbs 10:23, Proverbs 26:18, Proverbs 26:19, Proverbs 30:20, Job 15:16, Job 34:7-9, Jude 1:18
among: Proverbs 3:4, Proverbs 8:35, Proverbs 12:2, Proverbs 13:15, Romans 14:17, Romans 14:18
Reciprocal: Proverbs 15:21 - joy 1 Corinthians 13:6 - Rejoiceth not
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Fools make a mock at sin,.... At sinful actions, their own or others; they make light of them, a jest of them, call evil good, and good evil; take pleasure in doing them themselves, and in those that do them; yea, sport themselves with the mischief that arises from them unto others; they make a mock at reproofs for them, and scoff at those that instruct and rebuke them; and laugh at a future state, and an awful judgment they are warned of, and in a scoffing manner say, "where is the promise of his coming?" Some, as Aben Ezra observes, render it "a sin offering"; and interpret it of the sin offerings and sacrifices under the law, as derided by wicked men; but may be better applied to the sin offering or sacrifice of Christ, who made his soul an offering for sin, to make satisfaction and atonement for the sins of his people; this is mocked at by false teachers, who deny it; and is exposed to derision and contempt by the Papists, by their bloodless sacrifice of the mass, and by their merits and works of supererogation, which they prefer to the sacrifice and satisfaction of Christ. The words may be rendered, "sin makes a mock of fools" h; it deceives them, it promises them pleasure, or profit, or honour, but gives them neither, but all the reverse;
but among the righteous [there is] favour: they enjoy the favour of God and man; or "there is good will" i, good will towards men; they are so far from making a mock at sin, and taking delight in the mischief that comes by it to others, that they are willing to do all good offices unto men, and by love to serve their friends and neighbours: or "there is acceptance" k; they are accepted with God upon the account of the sin offering, sacrifice, and satisfaction of Christ, which fools mock and despise.
h אוילים יליץ אשם φρονας χλευαζει πλημμελεια, Aquila Theodotion in Drusius "delictum illudit fatuos", Gejerus. i רצון "benevoleatia", Montanus, Baynus, Piscator, Mercerus, Gejerus. k "Acceptatio", Cocceius, Gussetius.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Fools make a mock - The verb in the Heb. is singular, the noun plural. The King James Version assumes that the number is altered to individualize the application of the maxim. Others translate it: “Sin mocks the fools who are its victims,” i. e., disappoints and ruins them; or, “A sin-offering does but mock the worshippers when they are willfully wicked:” they expect to gain God’s favor, and do not gain it. So taken it becomes parallel to Proverbs 15:8; Proverbs 21:7.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Proverbs 14:9. Fools make a mock at sin — And only fools would do so. But he that makes a sport of sinning, will find it no sport to suffer the vengeance of an eternal fire. Some learned men by their criticisms have brought this verse into embarrassments, out of which they were not able to extricate it. I believe we shall not come much nearer the sense than our present version does.
